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Newspaper Page TextGffrica Joaih 3srsss& ":'' THE NIAM-NIAM ;; . CHAPTER XX - tTE 'chose path at random. He walked on for a while, . found it crazily, sardonically zig- ugglng and know, all at once, , that he wai lost Hii horror grew. Despair came. then, gradually, it faded into a ' dull indifference, something like decay of his senses, his heart, his soul. He shrugged his shoulders. ' Listlessly he sat down. He was . grimly amused as he realized that his own death did not even strike him as dramatic. It seemed to be somebody else who was dying; ' somebody whom he liked in a ' curiously impersonal manner. This somebody else thought of his former life: America, Paris, Africa. Thought of politics. Hit ler, RooseveK, de Gaulle, Eisen hower, Churchill. Thought of auc tion bridge and golf and salmon ; fishing and women. Thought of a girl whom he had met just the other day. Nice little American girl. What was her name? Nancy something-or-other ... Dldnt matter. But how lovely she had been, with her wheat-colored hair, her red lips, her frank, boyish eyes! He loved those eyes. Loved the whole girl . . . "Oh!" He gave a cry of pain as a horned beetle bit him on the wrist "Damn the double- damned luck!" he yelled. Then he laughed, a little hyster ically: "Ho, ho!" . And it seemed to him that the wilderness was echoing the sounds: "Ho, ho. ho, ho . . THERE was, quite suddenly, si lence; and, as suddenly, he knew that the echo of his laugh' ter was real, was coming up from the ground, from the waist-high Crass. At the same fraction of a sec ond, he saw a flash of color glid ing away. Still at the same frac tion of a second, his hand, an swering the hurry call from eye and ear to brain, shot down and clutched something that wriggled and twisted. His hand came out of the grass, and in its grip appeared a tiny figure, fantastically hideous, but human, and still, on its broad, toothy mouth, a physical indica tion of the merriment which Lin coln had heard. . Lincoln held the captive at arm's length. He knew at once what he was: one of the Niam Niams, the tribe of pygmies, who, . despised as well as feared by the other Negroes, live in the depths of the jungle. The man bad smeared his small, muscular, naked body with a thick , layer of ochre and orange in an extravagant pattern. His face, flat-nosed, the ears pulled out of shape by great pieces of bone in- - serted into the lobes, was daubed with white. From a string around his neck depended a mass of flanking barbarous juju amulets. By all this the American knew that the other was a medicineman, thus a big man; indeed, a very big man, perhaps more important to his own people than Lincoln was to the United Nations. The Niam-Niam continued twist- ing and wriggling. He chattered furiously and a notion came to Lincoln: these pygmies were fa miliar with all the wilderness trails. Therefore, if he could make the little man understand and obey ... but first he'd have to keep still and listen. So Lincoln yelled at him in a mixture of Negro dialects he had picked up here and there. "Moyekorol Uoyekorot Hey " angrily "don't you understand your own bloody lingo? Oh for cryin out loud! N'jvmah n'kwna.' "Salaam aleykoom!' suddenly shrieked the Niam-Niam. "Oh you know Arabic?" the American rejoined in the same language. "Yes, yes!" Years earlier the small savage explained he had beea. captured by Moroccan raiders; Taad been exhibited in circuses in Tangiers and Fez; had finally escaped, and, somehow, found his way back to his native jungle. . . TlNCOLN's grip tightened. He felt sorry; felt ashamed of himself. But . he knew these dwarf aborigines; knew that, since every hand was against them. rUNNY BUSINESS "George always makes circular garden beds so he can ' ' . work in the shade!" Abdullah' their hands were against everyone; knew, therefore, better than to employ kindness Just then. Kind ness would be interpreted as weakness. He shook the man until the juju amulets rattled and danced and clacked. "I shall kill you, O pig - and father of piglings," he announced almost casually, "unless you . . ." He paused; and at the word "unless" an expression of hope eddied up in the medicineman's eyes. There was, evidently, a chance of bargaining for his life. "What do you wish?" he de- OLD HOMESTEAD IN SIMPLE EMBROIDERY Alice Brooks Home what our men . are fighting for what they are dreaming of in distant lands! Embroider this homestead on a panel to decorate your walls. Then you need only line it and it's ready to put up and delight the whole family. Pattern 7585 contains a transfer pattern of a picture 15 by 20 inches; color chart; list of materials needed; stitches. To obtain this pattern send 11 cents in coin to The Herald and News, Household Arts Dept., Klamath Falls. Do not send this picture, but keep it and the num ber for reference. Be sure to wrap coin securely, as a loose coin often slips out of the envel ope. Requests for patterns should read. Send pattern. No. , to followed by your name and address. Because of the slowness of the mails, delivery of Herald and News Household Arts patterns may take two weeks to reach you after- your order is mailed in. We re sorry. HOLD EVERYTHING!. "This must be some of that' loose talk we were warned' ,rtout!"- V by iww.ammt,..,. sf "mrr I manded. "Tell me and It Is done!" "Very well. I shall grant you life. On one condition." "Name it!" "Show me the quickest way to Lake Tchad and the Meeting of the Elephants." The the Meeting of the Ele phants Lake Tchad . . .?" cam the pygmy's stammering echo. There was no fear in the words such as the American had heard on the lips of the Yorubas, back at Ycbba. There was only aston ishment; a rather amused aston ishment. It was clear that the Niam-Niam knew notliing about the hytemoot ameei or, at least, was not in awe of him. Then the medicineman laughed shrilly, as he had before. "Come!" he said. "No tricks!" warned Lincoln, releasing him and drawing his re volver. (To Be Continued) . In the final defeat of the axis, our traditional weapon of eco nomic pressure will prove once again one of the most decisive factors. Dingle M. Foote, Brit ish economic warfare ministry parliamentary secretary. For Home Refinishing BLACK JACK ENAMEL For touching up or recoatioc countless metal, wood or com position articles lothehome r Black only. jg Mhamil F. R. Hauger OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY 515 Market Phone 7221 Woo CAN TRAVEL FARTHER. 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